Texas Smoked Meats

Site Justification

The overall design of the page was to provide an aesthetically pleasing site that provides ease of use and simplicity in navigating through the pages reading about products offered and purchasing options. The use of video and graphics to essentially make visitors hungry for smoked meat and homemade bbq sauces. The videos are geared to educate visitors in various aspects of meat and sauce preparation. The soft colors are pleasing to the eye and in my opinion do not make the user rush off to other pages. I have always found that colors that impact the eyes negatively make me leave the page and site quicker than colors easy on the eyes. This site achieves this goal. Also, the written content is concise and to the point. Not a lot of unnecessary content making the reading experience traumatic if you will. I have used much of what was learned throughout the semester, although I have had difficult formatting the forms on different pages to match the content on those pages. Specifically, the drop downs on the catalog pages are to large as is the submit button on these pages. They match the forms on the contact page. Developing a site of this nature will require a greater variety of products for sale. Additionally, social media links and relationships will be created so we can interact with users of those applications. Food related productions are booming currently and users want to be involved in the process. It is our goal to create a business that is completely involved with its visitors through our processes and those which we create together.

Feedback From Instructor and Peers

Joseph Sikes:
Evening Chris, I really like the color change that takes place in the background as you scroll down and the layout of your website is very appealing. It definitely makes me hungry. You've got simple design that provides plenty of information in helping a customer make a selection; the pictures don't hurt either. The only thing I see at the moment that may need addressing, unless it's by deisgn, is that some pages have "About", "Contact, "Home" navigation buttons at the bottom and some only have "Contact" and "Home".

Corey Theis:
Hi Chris, I really like the look and feel of your website. It really gives off that aura of Texas, America, and barbecue. I like how everything is laid out on the pages as well, its easy to read and easy to see. The colors don't blend together or clash with each other so visitors won't have problems with seeing text. As far as concerns I would just say like Joseph did that there is just About and Contact on some pages and not all. As far as your images are concerned I commented in our general discussion post but I'll do it here too I think you just aren't linking the images to the html pages. I right clicked on a few and looked at their web addresses and they are all along the lines of "http://www.geocities.ws/crothgeb1175267/imagenamehere.jpg" so it seems like you uploaded the images from your pc and didn't link them from other websites. If you linked them from websites they would have more of a web address not just .jpg. I think you uploaded them okay probably but you just don't have the (a href="imagesname.jpg"). Correct on your original html pages for each page you created so the browser can't find the images and therefore can't display them. I hope I was clear about what you might try I know its hard to explain on here but if you have more questions feel free to ask. Overall though great start and I hope your final product works out. Also I think you're in my MAT 140 class too! Hope that class is going better than this one!

Corey Theis:
Quick side note, be very careful with capital and lower case letters on your image names, I make almost everything lower case letters in my file names when doing HTML and CSS to cut out problems. I saw on your new site you have some with capital and some lowercase so that may be causing you problems. One specific I saw you placed "garlicbrisket.jpg" and "pecanbrisket.jpg" on your "preparedmeatscatalog.html" page but both the image's actual names are "GarlicBrisket.jpg" and "PecanBrisket.jpg" in your geocities "Images" folder so maybe that's why the browser and webpage can't find them? Just a thought, change all your images to lowercase only names like "garlicbrisket.jpg" and "pecanbrisket.jpg" in the "Images" folder and see if they show up on your "preparedmeatscatalog.html" page. Just a thought but it might help. Also for your sauces page it seems all those images just don't exist in your "Images" folder so add those, make them lowercase, and you should be fine.

Jared Doty:
Just poking around, Corey is on to something. Here's an example: http://www.geocities.ws/chrisrothgeb/images/GarlicBrisket.jpg - shows up fine http://www.geocities.ws/chrisrothgeb/images/garlicbrisket.jpg - throws a 404 error Same with: http://www.geocities.ws/chrisrothgeb/images/herbedsmokedloin.jpg - nope http://www.geocities.ws/chrisrothgeb/images/herbedsmokedloin.jpg - nope Looks like it's a capitalization thing, and I would agree to just go lowercase with all. I noticed as well that some of the image links had "img" in the link instead of images, though I didn't see those images in the folder, but something else to keep an eye out for just in case.

Instructor Feedback

Milestone one: Nice work, Chris. Please see rubric for detailed feedback and follow up questions. Let me know if you have any questions and I look forward to seeing you develop this concept.

Milestone two: Nicely done! Let me know if you have any questions.

Milestone three: Feedback: So, for some of the "flare" fonts, would you consider embedding them in graphics to ensure that they are consistent and viewable on different browsers and platforms?